Sugar-cane harvesters will not be included...

CANE RULING.

June 22, 1987|By Jerry Jackson of The Sentinel Staff

CANE RULING. Sugar-cane harvesters will not be included among those eligible under the new immigration law that permits certain foreign agricultural field workers to apply for U.S. citizenship. Final definitions published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding the immigration law excludes sugar cane from the list of eligible perishable commodities. Sugar- cane cutters primarily come from the Caribbean under a multi-government temporary-work program. Various union, civic and church groups earlier this year urged the government to include the sugar-cane cutters in the citizenship program, designed in part to crack down on future use of illegal aliens.